Bill folder



Feb. 12 1924,

c. c. CHENEY BILL FOLDER Filed April 26 1921 Invemor. Chories C. Cheney yMMkW Anya Patente Feb. 12, 1924.

TATES insane BILL FOLDER.

Application filed April 26, 1921. Serial No. 464,593.

To all whom it may. concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. CHENEY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Charlestown, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Bill Folders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specificatlon, like characters on the drawing representing like parts. 1

This invention relates to bill folders such as are commonly used for carrying paper currency and it has for its general object to provide an improved bill folder which is 1 constructed so that it will securely" hold a large number aswell as a small number of bills and which is also constructed so that anyone of the bills can be withdrawn without disturbing in any way any of the other bills.

Other objects of the invention are to improve generally bill folders all as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

In order to give an understanding of my invention I have illustrated in the drawings a selected embodiment thereof which will now be described after which the novel features will be pointed out in the appended claim.

Fig. 1 is a view of a bill folder embodying my invention opened out ready to receive the bills.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating how any bill may be withdrawn.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the bill folder folded.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged section on the line 4=4, Fig. 1.

My improved bill folder comprises the body portion 1 which is of a length equal to about two-thirds the length of a piece of paper currency and which is of substantially the same width as paper currency, and two flaps 2 and 3 which are secured to the edges of the body 1 at one end thereof by elastic means, and a closing flap 1 which is secured to the opposite end of the body 1.

The flaps 2 and 8 are designed to fold over the bills in the folder and retain them in 50 place and means are provided for detachably connecting the ends of said flaps. Since these flaps 2 and 3 are connected to the body 1 by elastic means, said flaps when folder to- These tapes 5 provide an elastic connection between the flaps and the body 1 which will give or stretch when a large number of bills 7 are placed in the folder and by reason of these elastic connections the bill folder will accommodate itself to a small or large number of bills.

In order to augment the elastic qualities of the tape 5 I propose to use tapes of considerable length and to attach them to the body 1 and flaps 2 adjacent their ends so that the whole length of each tape can yield or give. One convenient way of doing this is to provide the body 1 with pockets 8 into which the ends of the tapes 5 are received, and to provide the flaps 2 and 3 with similar pockets 9 into which the other ends of the tapes are received, said tapes being sewed into the pockets by means of stitching 10 located adjacent the ends of the tape. In this way a relatively long elastic connection will be provided between the body and each flap while at the same time the inner edge 11 of the flap will be situated quite close to the edge of the body 1. These pockets 8 and 9 may be formed in various ways and where the body 1 and flaps 2 and 3 are each formed of two plies stitched together the pockets may be formed between the two plies. When formed in this way the line of stitching 12 which is employed around the edge of the flaps for stitching the two plies together will not be carried across the edges of the flaps where the tapes occur but will be carried across the ends of the tapes as indicated at 10 in Fig. 1.

The closing flap 4 may be either integral with the body 1 or a separate piece secured thereto by means of elastic connections 1 1 similar to the elastic tapes 5. This flap 4; is secured to the body 1 by means of a separable fastener 15. I

In placing the bills in the folder the flaps 2 are opened out as shown in Fig. 1 and then the bills are placed therein so that the ends thereof come adjacent the end 16 of the body. The flaps 2 and 3 are then folded over on each other and secured together by the separable fastening 6 and during this operation the tapes 5 will be stretched more or less depending upon the number of bills in the folder. After the flaps 2 and 3 are thus connected together the bills will be yieldingly retained by the folded flaps and the body 1 in much the same manner as they would be retained ifan elastic band were placed around them.

In folding up the bill folder the ends 17 of the bills are first folded over the flaps 2, 3 and then the body of the folder is folded centrally to bring the portion 18 so that it overlies the folded ends 17 of the bills and then the closing flap tis folded over onto the body and fastened thereto by the separable fastening 15.

When it is desired to remove any bill from the folder the fastener 15 is separated and the folder opened outinto the position shown in Fig. 2. The operator then selects with one hand the end of thebill which he desires, as indicated by the bill 19, and places the thumb of his other hand'on the bills beneath the desired one. By pulling on the selected bill 19 the latter will be Withdrawn endwise from the folder but without lijn any Way distributing any of the other ills.

I may, if desired, employ an additional flap 20 at the end of the body 1 which will cover the fold 21 of the bills Where it is exposed between the tapes 14. This additional flap 20, however, is not essential to the invention and would not be necessary if the flap 14 is made integral with the body 1.

I claim. 1

A bill folder comprising a body portion having a length substantially equal to twothirds the length of paper currency and having two pockets in each edge thereof adjacent one end, two flaps each also having two pockets in one edge, elastic tapes for connecting the flaps and the body, one end of each tape occupying a pocket of a flap and the other end occupying a pocket of the body, said tapes being secured to the flaps and body by stitching located at the inner ends of the pocket, whereby each tape can extend throughout its entire length, means for detachably connecting said flaps when they are folded over onto the body and a flap at the opposite end of the body portion adapted to be folded over onto the folded body and detachably secured thereto.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

CHARLES C. CHENEY. 

